Father pleads guilty to murder in baby's death

EL CAJON  A 21-year-old Campo man pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the suffocation death of his infant daughter.

Luis Alberto Duran faces 15 years to life in prison under the terms of his plea agreement, said Deputy District Attorney Danielle Hickman. He is set to be sentenced March 14 in El Cajon Superior Court.

Duran is accused of killing 4-month-old Imalla Duran at the baby’s grandmother’s home on Campo Truck Trail on June 25. Sheriff’s deputies and paramedics were called to the home after the baby stopped breathing, and she was pronounced dead.

Her body showed no obvious signs of trauma, but an autopsy revealed she’d been suffocated.